Qedward writes: Talk about cloud security, The Metropolitan Police is exploring the possibility of moving at least 60% of its IT systems to the cloud.

Stressing that the police force is only at the early "pre-approved business case" stage of its cloud plans, Roger Saint, head of strategic cloud in the Metropolitan Police Service's Directorate of Information, said: "We are looking to replace our existing systems with a series of services in the cloud."

"I've been looking at [moving] 60 percent of our systems," Saint told The 451 Research Group's HCTS conference in London yesterday...